Mavyn

There's been a lot of gab on this. Most of what I've seen has been 'gee, really? Does it matter or make sense to change the Green Lantern?' It's not like there aren't gay super heroes. (Ok, Marvel v DC, but still.) Instead, this comes across as an effort to 'market' to the LGBT community, with poor sense.

j5

Mavyn wrote:There's been a lot of gab on this. Most of what I've seen has been 'gee, really? Does it matter or make sense to change the Green Lantern?' It's not like there aren't gay super heroes. (Ok, Marvel v DC, but still.) Instead, this comes across as an effort to 'market' to the LGBT community, with poor sense.

Of course it does. Well, I'd say it's more to market to current public sentiment as driven by enlightened youth (et. al)
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I don't see why they need to rehash an older character to do this. I have no problem with the Green Lantern or any other comic character being grumpy, or them changing the Green Lantern per se, but I don't see why they don't start writing some new original heros. Is it really that hard? I mean the 52 reboot is fun, a nice easy way to get into some classic heros, but isn't it time we not only updated the stories, but we looked to a new generation of heros?

j5

I don't see why they need to rehash an older character to do this. I have no problem with the Green Lantern or any other comic character being grumpy, or them changing the Green Lantern per se, but I don't see why they don't start writing some new original heros. Is it really that hard? I mean the 52 reboot is fun, a nice easy way to get into some classic heros, but isn't it time we not only updated the stories, but we looked to a new generation of heros?

I'm going to be honest. I haven't followed comics since the 90s, so take this as you will. I can understand taking a stale character and injecting some interesting characteristic. It's happened to Spidey more times than I can keep up with. What I do find surprising is the continued prevalence of "Escher girls" in this age of supposed enlightenment.

no1

j5 wrote:I'm going to be honest. I haven't followed comics since the 90s, so take this as you will. I can understand taking a stale character and injecting some interesting characteristic. It's happened to Spidey more times than I can keep up with. What I do find surprising is the continued prevalence of "Escher girls" in this age of supposed enlightenment.

bounty42

j5 wrote:I'm going to be honest. I haven't followed comics since the 90s, so take this as you will. I can understand taking a stale character and injecting some interesting characteristic.

Yeah, had they done that it would have been slightly different. Alan Scott (to distingush him from the 14 other Green Lanterns) was active up to the last Crisis point, which was 2009-2010. He was a septigenarian, a grandfather figure to several of the youngest heroes, and literal father to a pair of heroes, one a Green Lantern herself, and the other a homosexual male anti-hero/villain (depending on your story arc).

Being one of the Earth-2 (or Golden Age) heroes, he's actually been in the books since the 1920s, and is one of maybe 4 who are actually un-reconed for the most part pre nDCU.

I won't say I'm not interested to see how they play this one, but I really doubt that even the best storyline is going to make up for losing Sentinel, Jade, and Obsidian from continuity.

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